Author Archives: Carol

All the girls love to dig holes but Smoke is our current most avid digger. I say current because back in the day that title went to Cinnamon. Cinnamon was our smallest girl but had big feet and we soon … Continue reading →

I have always removed the top from our soft boiled eggs with a knife. A swift side ways cut through the top and remove. However with the little serama eggs it’s a little more difficult. I think because they are … Continue reading →

Over winter while our girls weren’t laying we were having a soft boiled egg and toasted soldiers for breakfast one day a week. It became one of my favourite breakfasts. I hadn’t often done this with our girls’ eggs because … Continue reading →

The girls have really got into their egg laying stride. Even Ebony is now laying again. Ebony laid an egg three days ago followed by another one yesterday. I am glad that Ebony is laying again. It’s not because we … Continue reading →

I have to warn that this will be long. We had Speckles for so long that there is a lot to say about her and I have lots of photos of her. I spent all yesterday afternoon going through photos … Continue reading →

Speckles was our oldest girl and we knew that the day would come when we would lose her. What we didn’t expect was for it to be now. What I would have expected was a gradual slow down. Speckles was … Continue reading →

Flame seems to like sharing a nest box. If another girl is in a nest box Flame will always choose to share. Today Sugar was in the nest box first. Flame was making the mournful sound that she always makes … Continue reading →

This is another example of being able to tell my girls eggs apart. I know Sophie is always surprised how well this works for me but I am guessing that her girls’ eggs are very similar. I am not saying … Continue reading →

Both Salmon and Spangle have now started laying. I am amazed that at the moment I can still tell the eggs apart. I didn’t catch either Salmon or Spangle laying but I knew it was them that had laid. I … Continue reading →

It has been so sad to lose Marmite at only three years old. Marmite laid soft shelled eggs plus a few weird shaped ones all last summer and we always knew that the beginning of the laying season this year … Continue reading →